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All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming | 
 enlarge | Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 59779
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0812211391
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.209416
EAN: 9780812211399
ASIN: 0812211391
Publication Date: January 1, 1976
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Condition: Paperback Publisher: Penn State University Year Published: 1983 Online price is only valid online. In store price may be different.
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For the general reader as for the folklorist, this is a fascinating, vivid, and sensitive account that, through its portraits of individuals and of a community, offers a unique insight into a folk custom of the Christmas season.
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 not for children September 30, 2004
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a serious book by a noted folklore scholar. It is not appropriate for children as noted above.
The Bookschlepper
 Mumming Revived June 8, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Mumming isn't solely the New Year's tradition that is performed in Philadelphia's streets. In Ireland, it involved masking, music making, storytelling, and folk drama as mummers visited neighbors in holiday celebrations. Henry Glassie's book is a study of the folklore and oral history of mumming within a small community in the border area of Ireland and Ulster. Although the mumming tradition had died out by the mid 20th century, current residents who remembered the mumming tradition describe what one might experience when celebrating a typical evening of the old tradition. The book is a highly readable and insightful study of Irish folklife, and a fine presentation of mumming's memory culture.
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